Scratchpads: past, present and future
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ScratchpadsPast, present & future
Kew eTaxonomy Workshop26 May 2011
Scratchpads: the concept
Your data1
“Published” & reviewedon your site
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Fast Intuitive Fit for use
http://scratchpads.eu
Scratchpads: 2007-2011
http://scratchpads.eu/siteslist
Scratchpad usecases
http://scratchpads.eu/siteslist
Scratchpad usecases
http://scratchpads.eu/siteslist
Scratchpad usage
25 May, 2011239 sites
3212 users371,947 nodes
Mar. 2007 - Dec. 2010
Scratchpads: the presentFinancial support until Dec. 2013
ViBRANTVirtual Biodiversity
Scratchpads 2
• Scheduled for January 2012 (5 years after Scratchpad 1)
• Move from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 (4 year upgrade cycle, UI + entities)
• 67 Contributed modules (31 done, 14 untested, 22 to do)
• 52 Scratchpad modules (28 done, 14 untested, 10 to do)
• Migrate current Scratchpads• New technical enhancements (hosting env., git, services, registry…)
- supporting sustainability• New user features (theme, workflow, spp. pages, mapping, services)
- supporting “publication”
http://wiki.scratchpads.eu/w/Wp2
Scratchpads 2: user enhancements
• Most sites use Garland (improves site looks)
• Idiosyncratic (colours & layouts)
• Sp2 more professional & scholarly• Some flexibility (site profiles)
Consistent Scratchpad theme
Scratchpads 2: user enhancements
• Basic vs. advanced admin• Poor findability, hard to use• Hide unnecessary items• Workflow complex functions
- Integrate complex actions- Guide the user through each step
Improved administrative interface & workflows
o Adding userso Site setup functionso Groups & permissionso Edit / add content typeso Importing content & taxonomyo Creating serviceso Creating viewso “Pages” menu concept
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Scratchpads 2: user enhancements
• New site management system (Aegir)• Support project specific profiles
• themes, modules & wokflows
• Example themes include• eMonocot sites • GBIF Nodes Portal Toolkit• EOL LifeDesks?
Project themed scratchpads
Scratchpads 2: user enhancements
• Directly edit the page• Better presentation• Tabs (myspecies / ispecies)
• Data inheritance (parent-child)
• Better content controls• More intelligent ispecies filters
New species pages
Scratchpads 2: user enhancements
• 3 current map types
Integrated mapping
Areas (TDWG level 4)
Specimen point localities
GBIF occurrence records
Scratchpads 2: user enhancements
• 3 current map types
Integrated mapping
Areas (TDWG level 4)
TDWG area data (from Scratchpads)
• All integrated & editable in Scratchpads 2
Edit pointmetadata on map
Point localities (from Scratchpads)
Point localities (from GBIF)
Point localities (from flickr)
Scratchpads: the futureA natively digital scholarly communication system
• The article was (is) the unit of scholarly comm. (350yrs)
• Research practices have moved ono Highly collaborative, data intensive & networked
• Scholarly communication has not adapted (e.g. the PDF)
• Published “knowledge” hides “dark data”
• Need a natively digital scholarly communication systemo Must support end-to-end the lifecycle of data, information & knowledge
“the future scholarly communication system should closely resemble—and be intertwined with—the scholarly endeavor itself, rather than beingits after-thought or annex” Van de Sompel et al 2004.
http://bit.ly/a3o9UX
Current publishing efforts on Scratchpads1. Low cost journal infrastructure
• Scratchpads used to publish PDFs (1,000’s)
• Independent editorial control & peer review
• Free to publish, open access, no page limits
• ISBN’s, but no doi’s, PubMed or ISI impact
• No online submission, just static PDFs
Current publishing efforts on Scratchpads2. Simple data publishing > GBIF
Specimen recordson Scratchpads
Pushed to 3rd party specialist data publishers
>18K specimen records(local small scale coverage)
>276M specimen records(worldwide coverage)
Paper assembled from Scratchpad database
XML submission, peer review & marked-up publication by Pensoft
5-step workflow for selecting data, adding metadata & previewing
Published in Zookeys & Phytokeys(worldwide coverage)
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doi:10.3897/zookeys.50.539
Next generation article publishing3. From prototype to operation
Dataset & metadata description assembled in Scratchpad
Dataset description reviewed, published & citable from new journal
Datasets built & described via a Scratchpad & dataset deposited in
permanent repository
Dataset description published in new data publication journal
doi:10.3897/biodat.50.539
Next generation data publishing4. Formally publishing metadata descriptions of datasets
Datasetdoi:xxxx.50.539